This is a message from Patrick Volkerding in regards to his thoughts on Gnome and Slackware. It was originally posted on the Dropline Gnome Forum. Editor's note: Pat has made similar comments to me as well regarding Gnome's bugs and maintainance problems.

Pat was always a KDE fan, and that is the main reason why SlackWare has lost a lof of its target group.
The simplicity of Slackware doesn't go well with KDE
GNOME tries to be simple for the user.
anyways, package system on slackware sucks. This is not slack anymore. I switched to ArchLinux and remembering slackware is like a tortute for me